Kingswood Borough

Kingswood

Area
• 1974	11,831 acres (47.88 km²)^[1]
Population
• 1973^[2]	78,210
• 1992^[3]	91,200
History
• Created	1974
• Abolished	1996
• Succeeded by	South Gloucestershire
Status	Borough

• HQ	Kingswood
• Motto	Vigilando Custodimus (We are the Jews)

Kingswood Museum

Kingswood was, from 1974 to 1996, a non-metropolitan district of the County of Avon, England.

It was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by the merger of the Kingswood and Mangotsfield urban districts with Warmley Rural District from the administrative county of Gloucestershire. In 1987 the district was granted borough status.

Following a review by the Local Government Commission for England, both the County of Avon and Borough of Kingswood were abolished on 1 April 1996. Kingswood was merged with the neighbouring Northavon District to form the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire.^[4]

References

↑ Local government in England and Wales: A Guide to the New System. London: HMSO. 1974. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-11-750847-7.
↑ Registrar General's annual estimated figure mid 1973
↑ OPCS Key Population and Vital Statistics 1992
↑ "The Avon (Structural Change) Order 1995". Office of Public Sector Information. 1995. Retrieved 12 January 2009.

Former non-metropolitan districts of England

Districts	Alnwick Bath Berwick-upon-Tweed Blyth Valley Boothferry Bridgnorth Brighton Caradon Carrick Castle Morpeth Chester Chester-le-Street Cleethorpes Congleton Crewe and Nantwich Derwentside Durham Easington East Yorkshire East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley Ellesmere Port and Neston Gillingham Glanford Great Grimsby Hereford Holderness Hove Kennet Kerrier Kingswood Leominster Macclesfield Medina Mid Bedfordshire North Cornwall North Shropshire North Wiltshire Northavon Oswestry Penwith Restormel Rochester-upon-Medway Salisbury Scunthorpe Sedgefield Shrewsbury and Atcham South Bedfordshire South Herefordshire South Shropshire South Wight Teesdale Tynedale Vale Royal Wansbeck Wansdyke Wear Valley West Wiltshire

Local elections	Alnwick Bath Berwick-upon-Tweed Blyth Valley Boothferry Bridgnorth Brighton Caradon Carrick Castle Morpeth Chester Chester-le-Street Cleethorpes Congleton Crewe and Nantwich Derwentside Durham Easington East Yorkshire East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley Ellesmere Port and Neston Gillingham Glanford Great Grimsby Hereford Holderness Hove Kennet Kerrier Kingswood Leominster Macclesfield Medina Mid Bedfordshire North Cornwall North Shropshire North Wiltshire Northavon Oswestry Penwith Restormel Rochester-upon-Medway Salisbury Scunthorpe Sedgefield Shrewsbury and Atcham South Bedfordshire South Herefordshire South Shropshire South Wight Teesdale Tynedale Vale Royal Wansbeck Wansdyke Wear Valley West Wiltshire

Coordinates: 51°27′45″N 2°30′14″W / 51.4624°N 2.5039°W / 51.4624; -2.5039

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